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title: I have already six kingdoms, permit me to bestow one upon you, and u… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have already six kingdoms, permit me to bestow one upon you, and upon each of your sons. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 26

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I have already six kingdoms, permit me to bestow one upon you, and upon each of your sons.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, permit, bestow · **To what, where:** six kingdoms, me, one

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg503:1886`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:25:26
# text = I have already six kingdoms, permit me to bestow one upon you, and upon each of your sons.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	permit	permit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bestow	bestow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | six kingdoms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |
| 2 | **permit** | infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bestow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | one |  |  |  | upon you | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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